Unable to Access Gated Model meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B Despite Approved Access

[John6666]

Hmm… Known Colab issue is this one.

Error 403! What to do about it?

The only way I found around it in Colab was to (I) disable Notebook Access for any and all keys (the key shaped menu item on the left side of the Colab UI) (Ii) Go to Runtime > Disconnect and delete runtime (Iii) Reconnect to a new runtime (Iv) Replace any huggingfae-cli logins with : from huggingface_hub import notebook_login notebook_login() (v) Enter your ‘write’ token when prompted Basically, colab seems to cache any prior “read” tokens in a very persistent way that doesn’t get overw…